Create, apply, or delete a custom view

You can use a custom view to save specific display settings (such as column widths, row heights, hidden rows and columns, cell selections, filter settings, and window settings) and print settings (such as page settings, margins, headers and footers, and sheet settings) for a worksheet so that you can quickly apply these settings to that worksheet when needed. You can also include a specific print area in a custom view.

You can create multiple custom views per worksheet, but you can only apply a custom view to the worksheet that was active when you created the custom view. If you no longer need a custom view, you can delete it.

What do you want to do?

Create a custom view

On a worksheet, change the display and print settings that you want to save in a custom view.

On the View tab, in the Workbook Views group, click Custom Views.

Click Add.

In the Name box, type a name for the view.

Tip To make a view easier to identify, you can include the name of the active worksheet in the name of a view.

Under Include in view, select the check boxes of the settings that you want to include.

Note

All the views that you add to the workbook appear under Views in the Custom Views dialog box. When you select a view in the list, and then click Show, the worksheet that was active when you created the view will be displayed.

If any worksheet in the workbook contains an Excel table, the Custom Views command will not be available anywhere in the workbook.